This report identifies shipping packages/casks that might be used by the Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition Campaign Program (UFDC) to ship fuel rods and pieces of fuel rods taken from high-burnup used nuclear fuel (UNF) assemblies to and between research facilities for purposes of evaluation and testing. Also identified are the actions that would need to be taken, if any, to obtain U.S. Nuclear Regulatory (NRC) or other regulatory authority approval to use each of the packages and/or shipping casks for this purpose.
Revised: May 12, 2015 |
Published: September 24, 2014
Citation
Ross S.B., R.E. Best, S.J. Maheras, P.J. Jensen, J.L. England, and D. LeDuc. 2014.Used Fuel Testing Transportation Model Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.